Huldah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Huldah is a rare biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "weasel" or "mole"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Huldah is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Huldah is a rare biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "weasel" or "mole". It belonged to a respected prophetess known for her wisdom and authority, who played a key role in a major religious revival in ancient Judah. The name conveys a sense of spiritual insight and historical depth.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Huldah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 210 | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 17 | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 3 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 1 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Huldah is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The name Huldah is derived from the Hebrew word 'chuldah' (חֻלְדָּה), which means "weasel" or "mole". An alternative scholarly view suggests it derives from the Hebrew root 'chalad' (חלד), meaning "to abide" or "to continue".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, A prophetess in the Old Testament.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Huldah Bradleyb. 1773(1773-1842)
- Huldah Boothb. 1789American embroiderer
- Huldah Hopkins Fieldb. 1804US(1804-1887)
- Huldah Cherry Jeffeb. 1901USAmerican painter, active 20th century
- Huldah Hiltsleyb. 1985USAmerican politician
- Huldah BancroftUSAmerican biostatistician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 210 | #37,052 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1898 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1900 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1895 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1905 | 18 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Huldah mean, and where does it come from?
- Huldah is a rare biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning "weasel" or "mole". Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Huldah a male or female name?
- Huldah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Huldah?
- In the etymology graph, Hulda and Chulda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Huldah have the most bearers?
- Huldah is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Huldah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huldahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Huldah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.